Bhoos announces Smart Bots Coding Challenge 2023 with Rs. 8 lakhs price money

December 2, 2022

Bhoos Game, in collaboration with LOCUS, has announced the second edition of its “Smart Bots Coding Challenge”. So if you’re a programmer looking for some challenge, to meet like-minded coders, or to share ideas, then this might be exactly what you need. And in this post, we’ll be going through all the details of the Bhoos Smart Bots Coding Challenge 2023, including its eligibility criteria, event roadmap, prizes, and more.

Bhoos Smart Bots Coding Challenge 2023:

In case you didn’t know, Bhoos is a Nepali mobile gaming company that has published games like “Call Break Premier League” and “Marriage Card Game” on Play Store and App Store. Whereas LOCUS is an umbrella organization led by undergraduate students of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Engineering departments from IOE, Pulchowk Campus.

Anyway, the Bhoos Smart Bots Coding Challenge 2023 is a 4-month-long event (or 3 months without the registration period). And this time, the challenge is to build a “29 Points” game bot from scratch.

This 4-player (2 teams) game is quite popular in South Asia. In this, Jack (J) is the highest-ranking card, followed by Nine (9), Ace (A), Ten (10), King (K), Queen (Q), and then eights (8) and sevens (7). On the other hand, the remaining cards (2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, and 6s) are discarded from the game. You can learn more about the rules and objectives of the 29 Points game here.

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Eligibility Criteria

To participate in this coding festival, you must meet the following conditions:

The contestant must be a Nepali citizen
The contestant can’t be an employee (or a relative of an employee) at Bhoos Games

Contest Timeline

1. Registration

Bhoos Games had begun taking registrations for the contest on October 20, 2023. But don’t worry, you can still sign-up for this coding festival.

2. Preparation and League

(November 5, 2022 – January 15, 2023)

Under this, Bhoos Games will provide the necessary resources to the participants to get started. And once a contestant finishes building a bot, it will play a series of games against other bots from Bhoos and competitors alike.

3. Screening Sudo

(January 20, 2023 – January 21, 2023)

Once the contest is over, the top 8 players on the leaderboard will then present how they built the bot to the judging committee. This is to prevent any sort of fraudulent activities from the participants.

4. The Finale

(January 24, 2023)

In the finale, the top 8 players will battle it out once more for the top three spots. As for the prize pool, the second runner-up of the Bhoos Smart Bots Coding Challenge 2023 will be awarded Rs. 1 lakh, while the runner-up and the winner will get Rs. 2 lakhs and Rs. 5 lakhs, respectively.